Memoir

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Memoir

I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix

February 8, 2025February 8, 2025 - by Kate Gies

Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted

In a photo illustration, a man wearing a suit holds up a child in a black-and white photograph. The background is made up of scraps of documents, some handwritten, others typed.

March/April 2025 / Memoir

Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together

January 27, 2025January 28, 2025 - by Timothy Taylor

How 10,000 pages of documents sent me on a journey through Germany’s dark past

A photo of writer Scott Oake with his son Bruce

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I Lost My Son to Addiction. No, Privilege Didn’t Protect Him

January 25, 2025January 27, 2025 - by Scott Oake

He had a loving family, financial support, and the best treatment. He fell victim to an overdose anyway

January/February 2025 / Memoir

The Military Gave My Brother Purpose. It Also Broke Him

November 11, 2024November 11, 2024 - by Lisa Gregoire

As Joe progressed through the ranks, he started living two lives: the lauded soldier and the closet alcoholic

A black-and-white photograph of a man in a WWII pilot uniform, cuddling a baby.

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Finding My Grandfather, a Pilot in the Bomber Command

November 9, 2024November 9, 2024 - by Erin MacLeod

Mackie’s plane was shot down in 1945. My family is still coming to terms with the loss

Against a green backdrop with multi-coloured splotches of yellow, purple and orange, a curly white line connects the black-and-white, cropped photos of one man's eyes and nose to another's nose and mouth. There's a question mark on one man's face.

December 2024 / Memoir

How to Talk to People When You Live Alone

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 - by Ian Williams

“Once it became apparent how underused my voice was by noon, I couldn’t stop noticing”

Aged photo of a small cottage with teal wooden siding. Photo is glued to a page from a photo album with vertical lines of glue visible around the edges.

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Saying Goodbye to the Family Cottage

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 - by Chris Goodyear

Using household artifacts and a tiny old film camera, I recreated the past in my basement

A ghostly black and white photo of a family is super-imposed onto a colour photo of an older man peering into the open door of a home

Memoir

How Not to Ask Your Dad about Family Secrets

August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 - by Sadiya Ansari

I tried to get answers about my grandmother’s mysterious past. Turns out, I still had a lot to learn about myself

A foggy, dark scene lit by lamposts of Mont Royal in Montreal

Memoir

What Cruising Taught Me about Love

July 26, 2024July 26, 2024 - by Peter Dubé

I found connection in hidden trails, the flicker of cigarette ends, and fleeting encounters

A black-and-white illustration of two Indigenous with long braids of hair that are intertwined above their heads. A blood red moon is between them.

Health / July/August 2024 / Memoir

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

June 26, 2024July 29, 2024 - by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

My blood and how it speaks to me have become sources of my courage, my decisiveness, my quelling of self-doubt

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Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together

The Military Gave My Brother Purpose. It Also Broke Him

Finding My Grandfather, a Pilot in the Bomber Command

Saying Goodbye to the Family Cottage

What Cruising Taught Me about Love

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

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